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What Is Called Thinking?

What Is Called Thinking?

Lee Braver

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The MIT Press

DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262016896.003.0005

This chapter is concerned with the conceptions of thinking that correlate with the views presented in the previous chapters. The theoretical view pictures thought as the explicit and articulate thematic consideration of ideas. Thought must passively mirror its object, and since the highest form of reality does not change, neither does the highest form of truth. Since human nature and our relationship to the world are often characterized as primarily epistemic, and since epistemology generally intertwines with metaphysics, the implications of this conception of thinking ramify across many topics. Along with overhauling the nature of meaning, the world, and our relationship to them to address these complications, Wittgenstein and Heidegger construct highly innovative accounts of thought to fit their new conceptions, in the hope that a more accurate account of thought may prevent these pseudoproblems from arising in the first place.

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